> Who cares about Flash; it is total bollox (if you want animation
> use Director) - I think also people dont remember that Flash was
> not orginally an MM product.
Animation isn't all there is to Flash.
I remember about three or four years ago, when everyone started saying that
HTML interfaces were dying out, to be replaced by Java applets. We all
remember how that turned out, right?
To me, Flash realizes some of the promises made by Java:
platform independence (there are Flash plugins for common browsers on many
platforms, including Solaris and Linux)
lightweight applications - functional Flash swfs can be pretty small
rich interface functionality - you can do things with Flash that are
extremely difficult to do with DHTML
Here at Fig Leaf, we use Flash for interface components quite a bit, and
it's worked very well for us. We don't do lots of animation for its own
sake, but instead we use it for adding compelling functionality to our
applications.
For example, we had a DHTML-based org chart screen in an application. It
only worked in IE 5, and was an extremely complicated script - or rather,
set of scripts, using DHTML behaviors among other things. We converted it to
Flash, where it works better and is cross-platform.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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